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Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.

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Galway Kinnell

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

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It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

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Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

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The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

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I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

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